Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- At the beginning of July this year, a new train produced by the Spanish company Patentes Talgo S.L.U. was sent from the Spanish city of Bilbao to Tashkent.

First, having passed 4000 km by water on a ferry, the train was delivered to the Russian northern capital - St. Petersburg, from where, having passed the assembly procedure into a single whole, on July 20, it was sent by rail to Uzbekistan.

Having overcome another 4200 km, across the territory of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, on the evening of 24 July, the high-speed train was finally delivered to Tashkent.

This is the fifth high-speed train of this modification in Uzbekistan. Currently, Uzbekistan is in the list of 20 countries in the world with a developed high-speed railway infrastructure and has become the only country in Central Asia to be included in the Global High-Speed Train Ranking.